Title: wp-includes/general-template.php has been modified
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-includes/general-template.php has been modified

 *  [brokencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brokencode/)
 * (@brokencode)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-includesgeneral-templatephp-has-been-modified/)
 * I don’t know how someone can modified this file. Began when I was curious to 
   my blog that has been disappear from Google search. I checked one-by-one all 
   files start from plugins, themes and core. Sort them by last modified time and
   found wp-includes/general-template.php’s been modified by someone to extract 
   spamming links to in get_footer function :
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com)]_

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-includesgeneral-templatephp-has-been-modified/#post-1730711)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-includesgeneral-templatephp-has-been-modified/#post-1730711)
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